Jerry Seinfeld likened the Free Palestine movement to the Ku Klux Klan — even saying those who use the phrase “Free Palestine” are worse than the white supremacist group — at a student event at Duke University meant to honor hostages who are being held in Gaza.
Seinfeld spoke at the school in Durham, North Carolina, to introduce a former Israeli hostage, Omer Shem Tov, when he made the remarks, according to the university’s student newspaper, The Duke Chronicle. He reportedly started by saying, in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, “Just say you don’t like Jews.”
“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.
seinfeld is a pedofile zionazi.
“Seinfeld spoke at the school…”
He really shouldn’t be in a school
Maybe.
in reference to the Free Palestine activist movement, “Just say you don’t like Jews.”
Fuck Jerry Seinfeld and this dishonest bullshit. Hiding Israeli crimes behind false accusations of anti-Semitism.
Dried up has-been should leave the public stage.
You know, its kinda crazy that everyone has conveniently forgotten Palestinians are Semites.
I have to wonder what happens the day the Ashkenazi sect of Judaism loses control of the country and more militant factions decide they aren’t pure enough. Will Jerry Seinfield still want to vacation in Tel Aviv?
The old “If you don’t support our atrocities, you’re a racist” strategy.
It’s a sibling to the Bush era “If you don’t support our war crimes, you’re a terrorist.”
People with Critical Thinking Skills don’t respond to such nonsense. Anyone who does, is outing themselves as a gullible fool.
Jerry Seinfeld is a pedophile
He also met his current wife on cruise, while she was on her honeymoon.
Imagine that? She gets married, goes on her honeymoon, and some rich and famous comedian notices her, and she just dumps her new husband for the rich guy, proving what a piece of shit she is. It probably didn’t feel like it at the time, but her ex-husband dodged a giant bullet.
This sounds like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm
he’s probably on the files
It’s when they start saying nonsensical shit like this that you got to look up someone’s age. Seinfeld is 71 and saying stupid things. Go to bed gramps.
He’s also a groomer/pedophile. Check out who he was dating while shooting Seinfeld.
Seriously fucking shit?! I’m so old!
TIL Jerry Seinfeld is genocide supporter. Anyway, he is a fucking rich comedian, he knows nothing about anything. He thinks tha being jew or white american gives you rigth to kill entire nation. Scumbag.
Jerry Seinfeld is also a pedophile: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jerry-seinfelds-17-year-old-girlfriend-saga-resurfaces-after-duke-walkout/
Jerry Seinfeld is also a pedophile: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jerry-seinfelds-17-year-old-girlfriend-saga-resurfaces-after-duke-walkout/
While Jerry’s statement “‘Free Palestine’ are worse than the Ku Klux Klan” is absolutely moronic, he is not attracted to prepubescent children:
“Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12, psychiatric diagnostic criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.” ―https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia
There’s actually a separate word for people who prey on teenagers, if you want to be precise. I don’t remember what it is. I’m not up to date on my varieties of sex offender and I don’t want to put that in my search history.
still illegal
Unfortunately a majority(? cba counting) of states have age of consent below 18, New York, where this happened based on the snopes article someone else linked, is 17. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States
still illegal
Apparently it wasn’t:
“The minimum legal age of consent to sex in New York is now and was then 17. They dated for approximately four years, from 1993 to 1997. During the relationship, she transferred from George Washington University to UCLA, in part to be with Seinfeld; she cited constant press coverage and missing New York City as reasons for the relationship ending.” ―https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshanna_Lonstein_Gruss
I don’t understand why people feel the need to call others things they’re not and simultaneously want to be taken seriously in a debate. If words have no meaning then what’s the point? Jerry Seinfeld strikes me as a pretentious greedy immoral douchebag and his comparison with the KKK can stand on its own as a proper reason for ridicule.
While agree that words should have meanings, he definitely still was nearly 40 and apparently preferring the company of a 17 year old. Not a pedo by the evidence presented, ok, but that ice is thin.
The term is “sleazebag” or “pederast” if you want to get technical
While agree that words should have meanings, he definitely still was nearly 40 and apparently preferring the company of a 17 year old. Not a pedo by the evidence presented, ok, but that ice is thin.
That’s not thin ice. Paedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children, i.e., below the age of 13. Here’s where the ice is at its thinnest to diagnose someone as a paedophile, while ethically one is already submerged of course, when acted upon. It’s obviously not to be taken lightly with traumatic life-changing consequences when indulged. This is why it’s important to not throw terms around ignoring their meaning. People who actually are born with this condition should find ways to get psychological help to prevent it manifesting into reality. Irresponsibly throwing reputation destroying terms around causes people not to communicate, to suppress, and in the worst cases to satisfy their urges in secret which in turn increases the most wicked forms of suffering.
The aforementioned conditions are not at all present in Seinfeld-Lonstein’s case, where context matters. Here’s a quote from a book I’m reading which is an apt litmus test to decide if any relationship is weird or not.
“I spent Saturday evening at Leonberg. In Lisa [Remppis] I’ve found a person I can love wholeheartedly. Don’t misunderstand me, though. I realize Lisa’s half a child still, and I’m not depriving her of her childishness. I can’t philosophize with her.” ―Hans Scholl, At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl
Judging from the sources I’ve read Shoshanna and Jerry were able to talk to each other without one manipulating the other. While it’s statistically more unlikely considering their indeed unusual age gap, it does happen. They had a relationship for four years, so clearly it seems she was fine with it. Conversely, I’ve seen people in their thirties talk to each other where one was clearly dumbing themself down when talking to their significant other, which seemed quite weird.
TL;DR: there’s a night and day difference between actual indulging paedophiles who cause human trafficking and unimaginable suffering/death, and haphazardly being attracted to someone in their late adolescence. Conflating the two does the victims and the justice system a disservice. The former belongs to the most horrible forms of human depravity, while the latter, well, doesn’t. If one needs to manipulate another to form a connection, then it is ethically wrong regardless of age.
Ok, so the guy goes for as young as he possibly can and we’re going to assume that that confirms that he wouldn’t going any younger if he could? That’s the thin ice I’m talking about. I agree that we cannot call him a pedophile because there is no direct evidence of it, I’m on board with that, but his actions are not doing a lot for him. If he said “oh yea I like 24 year olds and older” that’s still weird for his age but it shows that his limit is a personal one and not a legal one.
It’s also weird that he says he could love someone whole-heartedly but also couldn’t properly communicate with her on more nuanced topics. Like, what made this minor so great and why could he not find that in anyone between 30-45y/o?
i don’t know if anyone worked as hard as Jerry Seinfeld to ruin his own reputation insistently for so long.
I mean, he’s doing a great job of it, but there are a lot of other sensational examples
Musk, Russel Brand, Kanye, Gervais, Rogan, Rowling, Dilbert guy…
You could argue none of them were as big a self inflicted fall I guess, but they were all, at times, thought of in pretty high esteem by a lot of of people, and then, well, you know.
I’m familiar with the rest of them, what did Gervais do?
Been a while since I’ve heard about him tbf, but IIRC he jumped on the whole “can’t do comedy anymore because they’ll cancel you” shtick when getting criticised for transphobic jokes/remarks.
I guess his is less offensive and more lazy. Just started rambling like an old man about cancel culture and comedy dying and hisow comedians “speak secret truths” instead of realising that the material wasn’t funny and was offensive and working on improving that.
He’s definitely the weakest example from the list, I’d put him in the same vein as Chapelle actually.
He strikes me as the one genuine example of doing edgy jokes because he actually likes edgy jokes.
exposes that Stephen Merchant was the funny guy all along.
more directly, he leans into the “legalize comedy” stuff basically, pretends that he’s too edgy and people constantly want to cancel him. when in reality he’s just doing transphobic hack comedy. he’s just generally super cringe.
my favorite thing about him is James Acaster mocking the shit out of him on one of his shows.
He laughs at his own jokes.
I, too, would like to know how Gervais ended up on that list.
Will Smith
Gervais doesn’t belong on this list
I don’t think this even dents it compared to his “what’s the deal with high school girls” thing.
“I don’t care about Palestine,” says the comfortable billionaire. He doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about the issue. He’s just OK with genocide as a final solution, like the vast majority of Israel.
“I don’t preach about [the war]. I have my personal feelings about it that I discuss privately. It’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong.”
His feelings:
I mean, no one should be surprised. Seinfeld has been a zionist from day one. Most of the cast of the show Seinfeld were zionists. Zionists are unfortunately a lot more present in media than anyone would like to believe, in addition to having many positions of power.
Are you trying to say Jews run Hollywood? /s
Clarification regardless of the “/s”: Even if Jews did run Hollywood I wouldn’t have an issue, as I have zero issues with people of Jewish faith. I have a strong hatered of Zionists, but on a global polulation level they’re just a very powerful minority.
Agreed.
Completely irrelevant to this whole thing, i was watching him in a newer talk show interview and he was doing one of his comedy bits and it was all “men are like this, and women are like this” and it wasn’t even offensive, it was just… not good. Like it’s not funny. The joke doesn’t even go anywhere. There’s a reason why that style of comedy is left in the 90s, it just doesn’t apply anymore
There’s a theory I’ve heard that people tend to stop growing mentally at whatever age they become rich and successful.
Then I’m gonna be a fucking genius before I get rich.
Tracks for Elon.
Absolutely. I firmly believe he was just a geek who had success at a very young age and that’s why he’s so immature. Unfortunately he’s also always been an egotistical maniac and that part has long overtaken the geek who actually liked tech and space.
That explains my continuing intellectual climb
Same really
Jerry Seinfeld? The man who, at 39 years old, dated a 17 year old high school student?
*Raped
As gross as this is, and clearly a 17 year old is not an adult by any real standard, but depending on the state it was legal. Just fucking gross and wrong immortal and he should be shamed into Oblivion for doing it.
This is the real answer. Really, really gross, just not necessarily illegal.
Age of consent varies. Example in Victoria Australia is it’s within 2 years until 16, anyone from 16 as long as they’re not your teacher or someone else with authority, and then 18 anyone older than 16.
Prevents stupid shit like I’ve heard from the US where an 18 year old gets booked because the parents don’t like that their 17 year old is having sex…
Don’t look up the age of consent in China, they’ve really dropped the ball on that one 👀
Did she claim she was raped?
That’s why statutory rape is a thing. It can legally be rape even if the victim doesn’t object, because the victim was not legally capable of consenting. Children who have been groomed often believe that the sex was consensual, but they were legally incapable of consenting.
Didn’t exactly answer my question.
Because the question is inherently flawed; With statutory rape, it doesn’t matter what the victim claims. The victim can claim it was consensual, but it’s still rape.
The question was simple, and the answer was no. And what a waste of time otherwise
Don’t be deliberately obtuse.
Let me clairify. The issue is question of how much experience someone needs to be able to make an INFORMED conscent choice with someone who has the Privledge of more time. It’s easy to lie to the young.
If you don’t care about informed consent, no one cares about you, so you needn’t bother replying.
Jesus Christ. How are so many wealthy people pedophiles in this country?! I bet he’s on the fucking Epstein list.
Wealth isnt accumulated via strong moral character. It favors the unscrupulous.
“Michael Richards Apologist Announces that Desire to End Genocide is Worse than Espousing Views of Virulent Racist Group”
Judaism has absolutely nothing to do with the genocide of a powerless nation. It was taken away from them by Western powers and the state of Israel was installed and ever since has been slowly expanding into Palestinian territory. I have nothing against Jewish people, but I think the state of Israel should be bombed out of existence for their inhuman relations with the rest of the world. They are even worse for hiding behind past atrocities while commiting their own. Go to hell Seinfeld, you need to go back to being about nothing, that’s all your words are worth.
Must be a sad thing to face the truth that you made a show about nothing and it’s been downhill since then.
“Just say you don’t like Jews.”
Equating Israel and/or Zionism with Jews is antisemitic. You outed yourself there, Jerry.
He’s like the forerunner of all the conservative Joe Rogan douches who have made it so that I can no longer publicly say I like stand-up comedy anymore.
They’ve literally ruined something fucking sacred.
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Hmm, I’m not sure that’s an issue. Do you automatically think that people think Joe Rogan or Seinfeld when they think of standup comedy? That’s barely what they do. I’m sure most people are neutral or maybe like the same comedians as you. Don’t overthink it.
Whenever I’ve brought it up as something I enjoyed, people will ask who I like and we have a fun conversation about it.
The number of right-leaning, man-o-sphere “stand-up comedians” has exploded such that I don’t feel comfortable saying I’m into it on, let’s say, a first date, without heavily contextualizing/clarifying.
Edited to add one other thing: I literally had a close friend up and move to fucking Austin as a result of that shit. I’m maybe a little sensitive and pissy about it all. It’s so stupid.
Interesting. Maybe because I’m in Canada. The polarization is pretty nuts down there.
https://youtu.be/c6692U1AD54 Elephant Graveyard has a video titled Jerry Seinfeld’s Entire World is Falling Apart that is pretty interesting. That channel has some gems…
